"Second Game in a Row"

       To my way of thinking, two games do not constitute a "row."  Even the AHD gives as an example for "row":  "won the title for three years in a row."

       So I have to say nay when the L.A. Times tells us the L.A. Lakers "win their second game in a row."

       But you do have to sympathize with the writer and/or the editor because, though the Lakers have managed to LOSE several "in a row," When they get two consecutive wins for the very first time in a season, you have to be cocky and confident to virtually brazen it through your humiliation as an editor, writer, headline writer or fan.  And if it is the first two in succession, isn't it already leaning toward three,  maybe you should just christen it with an assumed third and call it a "row."